Calvert, S.L. & Valkenburg, P.M. (2013). In M. Taylor (Ed). The influence of television, video, games, and the Internet on children’s imagination and creativity. Oxford Handbook of the Development of Imagination. Oxford University Press: NY: NY.

Calvert, S.L. (2013). Children’s media: The role of music and audio features. In S.L. Tan, A. Cohen, S. Lipscomb, & R. Kendall (Eds.), The Psychology of Music in Multimedia. (pp. 263-284). Oxford: Oxford University Press.

Researchers from the Children’s Digital Media Center (CDMC) published three special journal issues about recent findings in the children and media area. The first focuses on the role that screen exposure plays in development during infancy and early childhood, a matter of considerable controversy. This special issue, edited by Ellen Wartella and Elizabeth Vandewater from CDMC and Victoria Rideout from the Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation, appears in the January 2005 issue of American Behavioral Scientist.

The second special issue, titled Developing Children, Developing Media, focuses on the role of emerging media on development. This issue was published in the December 2004 issue of Journal of Applied Developmental Psychology with guest editors Patricia Greenfield and Sandra Calvert, both from CDMC.

The third special issue, titled The Impact of the US Television Act on Children’s Learning, authored by Sandra Calvert and Jennifer Kotler, addresses the role that public policy plays in improving children’s media choices. This issue was published in August 2003, in the Journal of Applied Developmental Psychology.